Gesture-Based Tagging for Seamless Media Content Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for finding information related to items within media content, such as videos, are inefficient and disruptive, requiring users to switch between viewing media and searching, especially on devices with limited capabilities like mobile devices.
Innovation Solution
Gesture-based tagging allows users to indicate interest in items within media content using gestures, enabling the automatic retrieval and display of related content without the need to open a web browser or manually input search queries.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a user opens a web browser and navigates to a search service to find related content, then the user can obtain search results, but the process becomes time-consuming and disruptive to media consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-loads and caches related content in the background before the user actually needs it. When a user views an item in media content, the related content is already available locally, eliminating the need for real-time web browsing and manual search queries.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a media content server and client device as intermediaries between the user and the search service. The server automatically generates and delivers related content based on item identifiers embedded in the media content, acting as a mediator that eliminates the need for direct user interaction with external search engines.
2Loss of information
If a user manually enters a search query to obtain related content, then the user can find desired information, but the process is inefficient and disrupts media viewing
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic content retrieval and delivery without requiring manual user input. The media content server automatically generates related content queries using item identifiers from the media content and delivers the results directly to the client device, making the system self-sufficient and eliminating manual search operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of manual typing and navigation with an automated electronic system. Item identifiers embedded in media content are automatically processed by the server to generate and deliver related content, substituting manual mechanical operations with automated electronic data processing.
3Loss of information
If the system provides comprehensive related content through external search services, then the user can access detailed information, but the complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential search functionality from complex external search services and implements it locally through item identifiers. By embedding identifiers directly in the media content and using them to query a streamlined server, the system removes the need for users to interact with complicated external search interfaces while maintaining access to related content.
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AI summary
Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices for enabling a user to view content related to an item within media content is provided. In one embodiment, a tagging gesture that indicates a user interest in an item presented within media content displayed to the user is detected. Such a tagging gesture can define a region of displayed content having the item. In response to detecting the tagging gesture, an advertisement provided by a third party that is related to the item is presented.